Sunday Postscript - Remember Jesus Christ

Yesterday’s message was from 2 Timothy 2:8-10 “Remember Jesus Christ”.  In this passage Paul urges Timothy to focus his attention away from himself and on the person and work of Jesus Christ – Paul sums up the Gospel with two brief statements about Jesus Christ that Timothy is to remember … His resurrection and His Messiahship.  I will just make the one point about the resurrection here.

Yesterday being Easter or Resurrection Sunday – many have went to church with their thoughts and remembrances on the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  This is a good thing.  As Christians, we should remember the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday – it is indeed the reason for the season.  And yet, though it may seem obvious to us – it may not be so obvious to others.  How many people do you know who don’t know about the resurrection of Jesus?  How many children do you know who think that Easter is all about colored eggs, the Easter bunny, candy and toys?

How many people are not thinking about the resurrection of Jesus Christ at all – but instead are thinking about Judas and his supposed gospel, or about whether Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children and about whether Leonardo Da Vinci has hidden within his artwork codes and clues to the true nature of the “Holy Grail”?  Others of course are just thinking about their lawns and gardens as spring has finally sprung.  So it is not a given that everyone remembers or thinks about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, even on Easter Sunday.  Even the local newspaper had a little blip on the Sunday paper saying “Happy Easter” and then the editor when and listed all the things that Easter Sunday is about and what people might be doing, yet no where was the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  The closest thing was the mention of people attending ‘church services’ – but no reason given as to why.  Yet this is the world – certainly we shouldn’t expect so much from the world.

But even among Christians there is a problem.  How many Christians celebrated, meditated and dwelt on the power displayed in the resurrection of Jesus and the hope that it brings to us yesterday – but today it was business as usual.  The thoughts and cares of this life and world forced Jesus and His resurrection to the back burner until next year.
But this should not be so … The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the very corner stone of our faith – Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:17 if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.  The resurrection of Jesus Christ seals for us the hope and promises that God has made to us through Jesus Christ – that we will have victory over sin and death, that we will one day be raised to eternal glory with Christ Jesus in heaven.

Certainly the resurrection should be at the forefront of our hearts and minds, not just this one day a year but each and every day that we seek to live our lives in faith.  So Paul urges Timothy and us, to Remember Jesus Christ, that He is risen from the dead.